Category: On Life & Love

It is hard to define the meaning of Hope. It is elusive, and an action with little reason or justification. We all have known the feeling of hope – we wish for it many times in life. We wish the newlyweds hope for a happy life. We bless a newborn with our hopes for good

Thanksgiving is the one day of the year that we spend in gratitude for all the graces we have realized in this life so far.  I am on a campaign to extend that expression to the other 364 days. It is a habit that anyone can form, and an embodiment that we all can easily

Have a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul. This life is not about showing a beautiful face to the world, it’s about showing a beautiful mind. By keeping alluring thoughts in your mind, sweet words will roll out of your beautiful mouth, and you and all around you, will smile. Life is

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like ‘struggle’. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly as he or she was made, exactly as they are here and now.”  ~Fred Rogers I recently posted this wonderful quote by Fred Rogers. There lies a profound ideology within

“Listen to your intuition” – I began hearing that mantra from the age of 6 years old on. It was not an unreasonable request, my mother was a very intuitive soul and her innate insights served her well throughout her life. It is not a trait or practice that came easy to me, I was

Common sense is beginning to set in. Social distance has now become the normal pattern. I’m not going to sugar-coat it, I was a hugger. I called everyone ‘darling’ and opened up my arms wide to embrace whoever was in front of me. Not anymore, however – that is a no-no! Now, a smile has to

I want to leave this world with the assurance that I have left nothing unsaid. When I go forward I want the people I have walked with to be assured they know everything there was to know. I do not wish to have questions remaining when there is time in these days to answer them.

It was a different kind of Thanksgiving this year, a meal was made but eaten on a tiny space cleared on the cluttered communal table.  Yet, we were grateful, full of gratitude for so many things; our daughter about to give birth to her daughter any minute, of course, was on the top of the

It is important to remember that every thought is a prayer, that’s why I try to keep my thoughts positive. Purity in affirmations is significant as you are the writer and producer of your own story. In order to get to your soul’s purpose, you must follow the rules of engagement. I don’t mean that

I read a quote the other day that made me react… “Here’s to strong women… May we know them, May we be them, May we raise them.” Credit – Sarah Shrader I love thinking about the strength of women and about all the things we accomplish in a lifetime. But I often wonder if other